Gavin Newsom is one of the most ambitious Democrat politicians in the country.
But he gets over his skis a lot.
And Gavin Newsom was fuming when Democrats rejected this scheme to upend the Constitution.
Gavin Newsom’s gun control constitutional amendment goes nowhere
California Governor Gavin Newsom has his eyes on running for President.
He’s been trying to boost his national profile in anticipation of an eventual national run.
Newsom launched an ambitious plan to add gun control to the Constitution with a 28th Amendment.
The proposed amendment would raise the age to buy a gun to 21, ban assault weapons, implement universal background checks, and institute a reasonable waiting period” for all gun sales.
Newsom wanted to enshrine the modern gun grabber’s wishlist into the Constitution.
The California Governor laughably claimed it would leave the Second Amendment untouched.
“The 28th Amendment will enshrine in the Constitution common sense gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and gun owners overwhelmingly support – while leaving the 2nd Amendment unchanged and respecting America’s gun-owning tradition,” Newsom claimed at the time.
He wanted to use an Article V Convention to pass, which would take 34 states signing off on it.
Newsom’s amendment had no chance of passing, but it was a test of his political strength and national interest in gun control.
California’s Democrat leadership in the State Legislature said they were behind his effort.
But Newsom’s gun control scheme was a dismal failure.
Gavin Newsom’s gun control scheme would be laughed at
Newsom is still waiting for a state to support him, more than a year after he launched his effort to pass the 28th Amendment.
Even his home state of California hasn’t taken action on it.
Newsom said that this was all part of the plan.
“Come on, no one was naive about this,” Newsom told the Los Angeles Times. “This has been done before, but not recently. It will have its fits and starts. It will have its champions and will have its setbacks.”
His office reportedly reached out to Democrat State Legislators about the amendment.
Newsom has traveled the country in support of Democrats over the past two years, but no one could find any evidence that he tried to rally support for his amendment.
State Senator Melissa Wintrow (D-ID) – Idaho’s Democrat minority leader – told the Times she hasn’t heard anything from Newsom.
“No, I have not spoken to Gov. Newsom,” Wintrow said. “I’m not aware of if he’s been in communication with anybody. I have not.”
Wintrow said the amendment would be laughed at in deep red Idaho.
“There’s just no way the state is going to agree to that. It just isn’t going to happen. As I’ve described, the political climate here is such that it just wouldn’t even be on the table,” Wintrow said. “They would laugh.”
Democrats know that their most ambitious gun control schemes are dead on arrival in the Senate with the filibuster or would be struck down by the Supreme Court.
A constitutional amendment is the latest political stunt that Gavin Newsom can’t pull off properly.
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